If it's potentially hardware related, the
Above pipes the output from
Also, is it possible that this could be a graphics card/driver related issue?
It may be that the graphics stack is crashing, either through a hardware bug, or a driver bug - the underlying system is running, but the screen is just not updating because the graphics card has locked up. Making it look like the system has completely frozen.
Then perhaps the power management settings are kicking in and locking the screen, before eventually shutting down, or sleeping/hibernating.
dmesg
command might also be worth a look. That will give you access to any messages in the kernels ring-buffer.
Bash:
sudo dmesg | less
dmesg
to less
, so you can scroll through the output. Or if you prefer, you could pipe it to an alternative pager like more
, or a terminal based browser like w3m
, or lynx
, if you have them installed.Also, is it possible that this could be a graphics card/driver related issue?
It may be that the graphics stack is crashing, either through a hardware bug, or a driver bug - the underlying system is running, but the screen is just not updating because the graphics card has locked up. Making it look like the system has completely frozen.
Then perhaps the power management settings are kicking in and locking the screen, before eventually shutting down, or sleeping/hibernating.